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Originally Posted by biguc
The problem with the original tower idea was that it would be too dependent on a developer being able to sell thousands of units at once. Winnipeg isn't adding a hundred thousand people a year like Toronto, so building Liberty Village here is a tall order. And Liberty Village kind of sucks, so there's that.
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That's a very good point to consider in all of this... I'd rather have a lowrise village materialize over the next 10-20 years than wait half a century for a highrise cluster to materialize.
The downtown box surrounded by Main, Ellice, Memorial and Assiniboine was pegged as our dense highrise district in various 1960s planning documents, but it's taking forever to actually get there. We're seeing some progress now with TNS, dCondo and others, but it will probably be at least another 100 years before that part of downtown Winnipeg really reaches what was envisioned for it. Maybe something a little more in line with what our growth levels can actually support is a better idea... I wonder if that was part of FNP's rationale for what they ultimately chose?
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